Performance tools for the system environment fall into two general categories: those that tell you what is occurring and those that let you do something about it. A few tools do both. This appendix lists these performance-related commands and subroutines. For details of the syntax and functions of the commands, see the AIX 5L Version 5.2 Commands Reference.
The performance-related commands are packaged as part of the perfagent.tools, bos.acct, bos.sysmgt.trace, bos.adt.samples, bos.perf.tools, and bos.perf.tune filesets that are shipped with the Base Operating System.
You can determine whether all the performance tools have been installed by running one of the following commands:
For AIX 5.2:
# lslpp -lI perfagent.tools bos.sysmgt.trace bos.acct bos.perf.tools bos.perf.tune
For AIX 5.1:
# lslpp -lI perfagent.tools bos.sysmgt.trace bos.acct bos.perf.tools bos.adt.samples
For AIX 4.3 and earlier:
# lslpp -lI perfagent.tools bos.sysmgt.trace bos.acct bos.adt.samples
This appendix contains the following major sections: